Theory, History and Development Seminar- Spring 2010

Social Science Plaza B Rm. 3266, 3:30pm-5:00pm
(unless otherwise indicated)

29 March
Sebastiano Bavetta & Pietro Navarra (London School of Economics and Political Science)
“Autonomy Freedom: Its Measurement and Policy Implications”

 

5 April
Bruno De Borger (University of Antwerp)
“A Political Economy Model of Road Pricing”

 

12 April
Roman Sheremeta (Chapman University)

“Sequential versus Simultaneous Election Contests: An Experimental Study”

 

19 April
Mario Lavezzi (Universita' Di Palermo)
“An Empirical Analysis of Growth Regimes”

 

26 April
Florian Morath (Max Planck Institute)
“Information Sharing in Contests”

 

3 May
Romain Wacziarg (University of California, Los Angeles)
“War and Relatedness”

 

10 May
Marc Muendler (University of California, San Diego)
“Preparing to Export”

 

17 May

 

18 May-Joint with IMBS (SSPA 2112)
Graciela Chichilnisky (Columbia University)

“Catastrophic Risks”

 

24 May

 

31 May
HOLIDAY

 

7 June



 

Theory, History and Development Seminar- Winter 2010

Social Science Plaza B Rm. 3266, 3:30pm-5:00pm
(unless otherwise indicated)
**Please note that this seminar is at Noon

11 January-CANCELLED
Guillaume Rocheteau (University of California, Irvine)
“TBA”

21 January- 2:30pm-4:00pm
Yvez Zenou (Stockholm University — Berkeley Visitor)
“Juvenile Delinquency and Conformism”

25 January -Joint with Macroeconomics
Valerie Ramey (University of California, San Diego)
“The Cyclicality of the Cost-Price Markup”

1 February
Kangoh Lee (San Diego State University)
“Unemployment and Crime”

8 February
Chad Jones (Stanford University)
“The Costs of Economic Growth”

15 February

HOLIDAY

22 February
Sam Bucovetsky (UCI Visitor)
“Honor among Tax Havens”

1 March
Willemien Kets (Stanford University)
“Inequality and Network Structure”

8 March
Rachel Pan (California State University, Fullerton )
“TBA”

11 March
Haelim Park & Patrick Van Horn (University of California, Irvine & University of Michigan)
“Credit Expansion and Contraction in the Central Reserve City During the Great Depression: An Empirical Examination of Search Models of Credit Markets”

15 March
Karl Warneryd (Stockholm School of Economics)
“Observable Strategies”
 
 

 
 

Theory, History and Development Seminar- Fall 2009

Social Science Plaza B Rm. 3266, 3:00pm-4:30pm
(unless otherwise indicated)
**Please note that this seminar is at Noon

28 September

5 October
Simon Board (University of California, Los Angeles)
“Reputation for Quality”

12 October
Armin Schmutzler (University of Zurich)
“Rotten Kids With Bad Intentions”

19 October

26 October
Guofu Tan (University of Southern California)
“Nash Bargaining Theory with Non-Convexity and Unique Solution”

2 November
Liam Brunt (The Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration)
“How Does Finance Generate Growth? Evidence from the First Industrial Revolution”

9 November- No Seminar
12 November
John Tang (Center for Economic Studies- US Bureau of the Census)
“Pollution Havens and the Trade in Toxic Chemicals: Evidence from U.S. Trade Flows”

23 November
Ramarcha Kumar (University of California, Irvine)
“A Model of Civil War with the Risk of Death”

30 November
Najeeb Ali (University of California, San Diego)
“Learning Self Control”

7 December
 
 

 
 

Theory, History and Development Seminar- Spring 2009

Social Science Plaza B Rm. 3266, 3:30pm-5:00pm
(unless otherwise indicated)
**Please note that this seminar is at Noon

30 March

6 April
Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard University)
“The Shape of Temptation: Implication for the Financial Lives of the Poor”

13 April
Don Sarri (University of California, Irvine)
“An extended Arrow's Theorem -- that applies to general economics, organizational design, physics, and even nano-technolgy”

20 April
Igor Kopylov (University of California, Irvine)
“Self-Deception and Choice”(with Jawwad Noor)

27 April
Christian Riis (University of California, Berkeley Visitor; Oslo School of Business)
“Network Competition with Local Network Externalities”(with Oystein Fjeldstad and Espen R. Moen)

4 May
Matthias Dahm (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
“Trials, Tricks and Transparency: How Disclosure Rules Affect Clinical Knowledge”(with P. Gonz�lez and N. Porteiro)

11 May

18 May

25 May
Holiday

1 June
 
 

Theory, History and Development Seminar- Winter 2009

Social Science Plaza B Rm. 3266, 3:30pm-5:00pm
(unless otherwise indicated)
**Please note that this seminar is at Noon

12 January
Jibonayan Raychaudhuri (University of California, Irvine)
“Exceptional Export Performance of Indian Firms: Disentangling Cause and Effect”

2 February
Tahir Andrabi (Pomona College)
“What did you all day? Mother's Education and Child Effort”(w. Asim Khwaja and Jishnu Das)

9 February
Mike McBride (University of California, Irvine)
“Conflict, Settlement, and the Shadow of the Future.”(w. Stergios Skaperdas)

23 February
Priya Ranjan(University of California, Irvine)
“Can Offshoring Reduce Unemployment?”(w. Devashish Mitra)

2 March

9 March

16 March
Matthias Dahm (University Rovira i Virgili of Tarragona)
“All-Pay Auction Equilibria in Contests”
 

 
 

Theory, History and Development Seminar- Fall 2008

Social Science Plaza B Rm. 3266, 3:30pm-5:00pm
(unless otherwise indicated)
**Please note that this seminar is at Noon

29 September

13 October

23 October
Gary Libecap (University of California, Santa Barbara)
“The Demarcation of Land: Patterns and Economic Effects”

27 October
Woong Lee (University of California, Irvine)
“Slack Labor Demand and Vacancy-Dependent Job Matching Process: Market Tightness and Matching Function Analysis for the Labor Markets in the United States, 1922-1933”

3 November

10 November

17 November
Gaute Torsvik (Universitas Bergensis)
“Testing Guilt Aversion”

1 December

8 December
Dan Klerman (University of Southern California)
“Legal Origin and Economic Growth”
 

 

Theory, History and Development Seminar- Spring 2008

Social Science Plaza B Rm. 3266, 3:30pm-5:00pm
(unless otherwise indicated)
**Please note that this seminar is at Noon

31 March

Ted Bergstrom (University of California, Santa Barbara)
“Altruism and the Bone Marrow Registry

 

7 April

Guillame Roger (University of Southern California)
“Media competition: a two-sided duopoly with costly differentiation”

 

14 April

Juan Carrillo (University of Southern California)
“The Compromise Game: Two-sided Adverse Selection in the Laboratory”

 

21 April

Greg Clark (University of California, Davis)
“Welfare Reform, 1834”

 

28 April

Mike McBride (University of California, Irvine)
“Position-specific Information in Social Networks: Are you Connected?”

 

5 May

Juan Vargas (University of California, Los Angeles)
“Commodity Price Shocks and Civil Conflict: Evidence from Colombia”(with Oeindrila Dube)

 

12 May

Sukkoo Kim (Washington University)
“Immigration, Industrial Revolution and Urban Growth in the United States, 1820-1920: Factor Endowments, Technology and Geography”

 

19 May

Ichiro Obara (University of California, Los Angeles)
“Secret Contracts for Efficient Partnerships”

 

30 May **12:30pm-2:00pm**

Costas Syropoulos (Drexel University)
“Trade Costs and Multimarket Collusion”

 

2 June

Jan Brueckner (University of California, Irvine)
“Slot-Based Approaches to Airport Congestion Management”

 


  

Theory, History and Development Seminar- Winter 2008

Social Science Plaza B Rm. 3266, 3:30pm-5:00pm
(unless otherwise indicated)
**Please note that this seminar is at Noon

10 March

Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (Caltech)
“The Old Economics of Information and the Remarkable Persistence of Traditional Credit Markets in France 1740-1899.”(with Philip T. Hoffman and Gilles Postel-Vinay)

 

17 March

Chris Chambers (Caltech)
“On Behavioral Complementarity and its Implications”

 


 

Theory, History, and Development Seminar- Fall 2007

Social Science Plaza B
Rm. 3266, 3:30pm-5:00pm*
(unless otherwise indicated)
**Please note that this seminar is at Noon

1 October**

Iris (Wan Ju) Franz (University of California, Irvine)
“Grade Inflation Under the Threat of Students' Nuisance: Game Theory and Empirical Tests”

 

8 October

Avinash Dixit (Princeton University)
“Democracy, Autocracy, Bureaurcracy”

 

15 October

James Bono (University of California, Irvine)
“Coral Games and the Core of Cores”

 

22 October

Hao Jia (University of California, Irvine)
“An Empirical Study of Contest Success Functions: Evidence from the NBA”

 

29 October

Amer Aladhad (University of California, Irvine)
“Singularity Theory, Economic Equilibria, and Equity”

 

5 November

Hyeok Ki Min (University of California, Irvine)
“Contests for Trade Policy”

 

19 November**

Aditya Chauhan (University of California, Irvine)
“Mafia versus Individual Criminals In The Presence of Law Enforcement”

 

19 November

Richard Arnott (University of California, Riverside)
“Downtown Parking in Auto City”(with John Rowse) and “Curbside Parking Time Limits”(Preliminary)

 

26 November**

Vimal Kumar (University of California, Irvine)
“Production, Appropriation and the Dynamic Evolution of Property Rights”

 

26 November

Chiaki Moriguchi (Northwestern University)
“Child Adoption in the United States: Historical Trends and the Determinants of Adoption Demand and Supply, 1951-2002”

 

30 November (2:00pm-3:20pm in SSPA 3132)

Samarth Vaidya (Deakin University, Australia)
“Evidence Dispersion and Media Capture”

 

3 December

Jared Rubin (California State University, Fullerton)
“Inherent Hostility or Institutional Outcome?: An Econommic Theory of Inhibitive Law Persistence in Islam and Christianity”

 

Seminar organized by Professor Stergios Skaperdas.

 

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